The Sacramento Bee reports that Sacramento County has paid $160,000 to settle a lawsuit by a jail inmate who alleged that she was raped by a female sheriff's deputy while in custody. What does it say about the quality of the jail's investigations that when the rape was first reported, the jail cleared the deputy and disciplined the inmate who reported the incident?
The suit claimed that another inmate reported Wood's involvement with the woman in January 2007 but that a jail investigation cleared Wood and resulted in discipline for the reporting inmate.
Three months later, the suit said, a former inmate reported the activity and Wood was placed on leave.
She later resigned and pleaded no contest in Sacramento Superior Court to a charge of having sex with an inmate. She was sentenced to 90 days in a work furlough program and given three years' probation.